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[Tom <question76926@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #76926 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/76926

Tom proposed the following answer:
Hmmm, i can't count in cylinders lol.  A 40Gb drive should have plenty
of room for both but something does appear to be a bit odd.

You say you're booting into Ubuntu fine and that Ubuntu seems to be
working fine?

If you are working from a LiveCd session then i've been completely wrong
about trying to access "menu.lst", instead try

cd /dev/sda5/boot/grub
gedit menu.lst

If you can get back to a LiveCd sesion anyway then go up to the top
taskbar and click on

System - Administration - Partition Editor

this should give a graphical view of how your partitions are laid out so
you should see that sda3 is at the end of the drive there :)  Does the
ubuntu partition, sda5, have 10Gb or more?  Ubuntu really needs 10Gb or
over but Xubuntu or plenty of other distros could fit into much less
space.  Please let us know how much space is in sda5 and then i can
suggest a better distro to install for the moment, just to get back into
Windows.  Note that we don't need to delete any partitions to sort this
out & fix both windows and ubuntu on this machine :)

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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